Insights Manager

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Insights Manager 

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Location:Spalding, Lincolnshire 3 days a week / Work from home 2 days a week

Contract Type:FTC – 12 months

Business Area:Bakkavor Ltd

Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 per annum

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Insights Manager, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do

We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. 

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Insights Manager to join our Marketing team based in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

In this busy and exciting role, you will lead the consumer and category insights agenda across a number of product areas in our business and deliver key insights with engaging and compelling narratives.

This is an internal facing role where you will provide insight and collated information cross functionally to influence the direction of our customer proposition and business strategy – with collaboration, curiosity, creativity, conviction and the confidence to challenge, at the heart of all you do.

Accountabilities

• Communicating insights with intensity and engaging narratives to all relevant stakeholders - helping to influence strategy creation and future pipeline that will drive value for Bakkavor and external customers
• Disseminating group opportunities by attending sector, category and project meetings as a consumer / category champion - presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders as you go
• Leading insight projects to improve our consumer understanding and insight capabilities
• Acting as the consumer expert point of contact, influencing customer thinking at a category level, both short and long term
• Interpreting category insights and overlaying customer shopper behaviours, attitudes and trends to provide relevant and robust rationale to support business, customer and category direction
• Creating category performance insight presentations, distilling insight from multiple sources and presenting compelling and insightful content to relevant stakeholders
• Supporting pipeline creation and idea facilitation through clear communication of category insights to ensure the consumer needs are clearly understood
• Influencing proposition development via the regular communication of key shopper, category, competitor, food, packaging trends and insights
• Ensuring the voice of the consumer is represented in all decision-making moments
• Supporting commercial on the category management process
• Understanding the competitive position and identifying and delivering on opportunities that exist to deliver USP to the total customer proposition
• Ensure relevant insight held about our consumers, briefing, conducting and sharing research output to demonstrate consumer sentiment about our category areas, highlighting relevant opportunity that exists
• Managing the workflow and requirements for the customer area, scheduling work to meet all internal and external requests
• Challenging and evaluating all requests in a smart manner to ensure each project delivers optimally for all stakeholders

About you

Ideally, you will have previous experience of a similar role within a food manufacturing or FMCG setting.

The ability to communicate effectively, particularly regarding customer priorities to ensure we deliver a cohesive UK strategy, whilst identifying risks and opportunities – will be key.

You will be curious and creative with strong presentation skills that deliver visually engaging, compelling narratives and storytelling to stakeholders of all levels.

If you are an influential and results driven Insight’s professional with excellent people management skills, commercial acumen and brand management knowledge – this could be the perfect role for you.

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Bonus up to 10%

• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Personal accident Insurance
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Employee assistance programme

• A range of voluntary benefits

• Holiday purchase scheme
• Additional life assurance
• Dental & hospital cash plans
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools
• Affordable loans via your salary
• Proud to be and loyal service awards. 

• Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!